HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.

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    6 months ago

    How does this compare to the Fairphone (or Murena Fairphone in U.S.)?

    Fairphone’s repairability is extensive, their version of Android is de-Googled, and they should have updates for 10 years.

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      Looks like the back (and side) cover clips on. IFixit has repair guides available already. Inside, it looks like basically any regular phone. No Fairphone-esque modules. The inside seems to be well-designed for repairability though – separate bottom board and battery pull tabs. All of the side buttons are attached to the back cover and a thin cable connects to the main board under some plastic. That’s going to be easy to break while repairing…

      I looked at all 3 phones, they are all similarly built to the Pro model I linked.